Saint Sebastian's Abyss Quotes

“...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place prominently on a mantel in the Berlin residence he hoped one day to die in, an urn that would serve as a reminder of the perils and pitfalls of mediocrity.”
― Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss

“Art is rare, we agreed, because humanity no longer produces artists; we live in a world of monotonous excrement or excremental monotony, we’d say, the difference being immaterial because the point being the world is awash with monotony while simultaneously overflowing with excrement, excrement and monotony bursting from every direction, a world that has not dulled or impaired but, in fact, annihilated the inspiration necessary to create artists, anything even remotely resembling the inspiration necessary to create artists has been wholly annihilated.”
― Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss

“How can one live and exist, we’d pondered, but not obsess over death? How can one be alive and not be enraptured by death? It seemed impossible.”
― Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss